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Finishing projects is overrated, unless you’ve never finished one then finishing a few for their own sake is worth it. Projects are experiments. Most of the ti
by solarmist 4y ago
Finishing projects is overrated, unless you’ve never finished one then finishing a few for their own sake is worth it.
Projects are experiments. Most of the time as you work on it you lose motivation because it become obvious it won’t work or you don’t have something (skills, knowledge, mature enough technology) needed to finish it.
Only finish projects that still valuable for you or for others. Discard the rest ruthlessly, but keep them around. Sometimes parts are useful later.
- NicksCode 4y agoThis is the best answer. Very wise!
- andrei_says_ 4y agoI really like this and it matches my own experience. Sticking to a failing or no longer necessary project for the sake of “not giving up” is limiting and does not lead to success.
- 7speter 4y agoI kinda moved away from a full stack web dev project recently that really showed me the down and dirty of using express and EJS templating. I didn't think it wouldn't work or I didn't have something, I just felt like it was a bit of busy work, especially on the front end, because I could move much faster building that with something like Angular or React. Because of all the drilling I got with the low-level frontend stuff, it's making Angular much much easier to learn than previous times I tried before.
- solarmist 4y agoLearning stuff is a great reason to do projects, but finishing isn’t required.